Product Manager, Financial Execution (Hybrid Chicago)

Halo Investing, Inc.; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Chicago role (3 days on-site)

Annual bonus eligibility

Flexible PTO

401k program

Parental leave

On-site gym

Team outings and events

Identity protection

Pet insurance

Accident insurance

Job summary

Halo Investing, Inc. in Chicago seeks a Product Manager to own parts of our financial execution tools from conception to release.

You will build high-reliability, low-friction trading interfaces for trade desks, compliance managers, and end-users placing market orders. You will bridge regulatory requirements with intuitive trade workflows, collaborate with Engineering and Design, and drive features from idea to go-to-market in a fast-paced capital markets environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience in product management within capital markets, trading, or financial technology.
• Direct experience building or integrating Order Management Systems (OMS) or Execution Management Systems (EMS).
• Strong working knowledge of the trade lifecycle, including order entry, routing, execution, and settlement.
• Knowledge and understanding of financial SaaS products and Financial Technology landscape.
• Experience with building customer-facing web-based platforms.
• Experience with product management tools, such as Jira, Miro, Github, Figma, etc.
• Technical understanding of software development and object-oriented programming.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with proven ability to collaborate with engineering teams and stakeholders
• Experience developing products within the full SDLC.
• Be adaptable and flexible! The trading landscape is fast-paced; successful PMs in this space must adapt quickly to sudden market shifts, new asset classes, or updated compliance mandates.

Responsibilities

• Focus on user experience: In financial execution, UX is about minimizing friction, reducing keystrokes, and preventing costly errors.
• Develop a deep understanding of the product and the market.
• Interface directly with trade desks and issuer trade desks to identify execution features, gather latency and liquidity requirements, and translate them into technical specifications.
• Own pieces of the core execution domain for the platform.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Design to build intuitive order-entry interfaces for users placing orders and trade desks executing/booking those trades, ensuring speed and accuracy.
• Work closely with engineers to manage technical scope and execution successfully through the development process and bring features to life.
• Drive the go-to-market strategy for new execution features, partnering with Sales to communicate value to institutional and retail trading clients.
• Be responsible for the go-to-market of new Product work, partnering with Sales and Marketing.
• Consistently interact with our customers to understand and translate their needs.

Skills

Product management

Capital markets

Trading knowledge

OMS/EMS experience

Web platforms

Jira

Miro

Github

Figma

OO programming basics

Tools

Jira

Miro

Github

Figma

Job description

Halo Investing, Inc. in Chicago seeks a Product Manager to own parts of our financial execution tools from conception to release.

You will build high-reliability, low-friction trading interfaces for trade desks, compliance managers, and end-users placing market orders. You will bridge regulatory requirements with intuitive trade workflows, collaborate with Engineering and Design, and drive features from idea to go-to-market in a fast-paced capital markets environment.